Supply chain

A survey by the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs indicates consumers will spend more on back-to-school shopping this year.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is suing the federal government over a pre-employment screening program it claims hurts a trucker’s ability to challenge alleged safety violati

Global port giant PSA and the Port Authority of Singapore have allocated some $15.8 million to develop a new generation of automated port vehicles to be deployed at PSA’s transhipment facilities

Hong Kong’s competitive position in high-tech logistics markets will get a major boost when new infrastructure linked to factories in neighboring South China and Macao is completed, DHL Supply C

Federal regulators last week shut down an Alabama trucking firm identified as a “chameleon” carrier set up to evade an earlier out-of-service order in May.

The class action price-fixing lawsuit looming over the United States’ four largest railroads will likely rival the

U.S. retail sales fell for third straight month in June as consumers cut spending on goods including cars, building materials, and electronics and appliances, the Commerce Department said.

Kerry Logistics has opened a new 36,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Vietnam.

After years of producing garments and luxury goods for the world, China’s fashion-conscious consumer is now a major engine for logistics development efforts at home.

Federal and state regulators reportedly are visiting drayage company offices and requesting voluminous amounts of documentation, seeking to demonstrate the companies are intentionally misclassifying d

Ports

The surface transportation bill Congress squeezed out in late June appears to be more a deferral of hard decisions than a strategy to fix the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.

China’s exports outperformed imports in June, but year-over-year growth slowed compared to May.

When Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner expropriated control of the country’s largest oil producer, YPF, from its Spanish parent Repsol YPF in May, the shockwaves reverberated th

A House hearing Wednesday on the federal CSA trucking safety initiative morphed into a debate over electronic onboard recorders, the relationship between driver pay and safety and even, briefly, wheth

A key manufacturing index suggests U.S.

The Army Corps of Engineers expects the deepening of Charleston's harbor to be completed sooner and cost less than it originally projected.

Kerry Logistics plans to expand its presence in Thailand further.

Transportation and warehousing lost about 2,200 jobs in June, after a 36,000 job hiring spree in May,

Kuehne + Nagel is acquiring the business contracts of Canada’s Perishables International Transportation in the latest expansion of Swiss logistics giant’s global fresh and frozen foods net

Trucking operator Saia didn’t have to look far for a logistics company to buy — Robart Transportation

The United States on Thursday filed a trade complaint with the World Trade Organization challenging Chinese duties placed on more than $3 billion in U.S.-made vehicles, Trade Representative Ron Kirk s

Although a new study raises doubts about the reliability of CSA scores, those score

A second Wells Fargo analysis of the CSA program deepens doubts about the link between CSA BASIC scores and a trucker

American exporters could get improved access to Asia-Pacific markets if U.S. negotiations with eight Pacific Rim countries that kicked off this week result in a favorable trade agreement.

NYK President Yasumi Kudo said the company plans to double sales from logistics operations in future as global vessel overcapacity depresses freight rates in its container and other sea-borne cargo di

U.S. exports of soybeans, coal and petroleum will drive the nation’s trade to expand 95 percent by 2026, as global trade jumps 98 percent in the same period, according to a HSBC report.

A widely followed gauge of U.S. manufacturing unexpectedly contracted in June for the first time in almost three years amid signs of softness in new orders.

The Gotthard tunnel has re-opened almost a month after a landslide forced the closure of the main north-south route for freight trains and trucks through the Swiss Alps.

The U.S. may be stuck in a period of slow growth, but its economy is not in imminent danger of sliding back into recession, an Emory University economist says.

Europe’s recession will slow growth in containerized imports and exports through the continent’s northern ports to about one-third the rate of last year, according to the latest Global Por

Container ship lines say it’s not unusual for their cargoes’ actual weights to be 3 to 7 percent higher than reported weights.

The final surface transportation bill passed on Friday, providing victories and disappointments for shippers and freight transportation providers.

Once regarded as a necessary evil and a drag on the bottom line, reverse logistics has emerged as a critical capability for third-party logistics providers trying to capture a share of booming seconda

The American Association of Port Authorities said delays in setting technical specifications for Transportation Worker Identification Credential card scanners could force ports to shoulder extra costs

Electronics giant Foxconn plans to build a giant factory in Indonesia, and as a result, could employ as many as 1 million people in the country.

Indian regulatory authorities cleared a joint venture between Japanese forwarder Kintetsu World Express and domestic logistics group Gati Ltd.

Congress appears to be on track to reach an agreement by late Wednesday over the long-delayed surface transportation bill that will extend highway funding through September 2014.

A key U.S. trade official lashed out at the declining state of U.S.